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"Bah!" he exclaimed, after a pause, "I'll risk it. I accept it for forty onzas. And now, senor stranger, I am deaf, dumb, and blind." "I count upon it," coldly rejoined the unknown. "By the life of my mother!" replied Pepe, "since it's not an affair of smuggling I don't mind to lend you a hand for as a coast-guard, you see, I could not take part in anything contraband no, never!"
It is somebody, anyway. I saw the opening of a path down the rock just now," and he threw himself off his horse, and threw her the bridle. "You ride to the first house; find where there is a Coast-guard station, or any fisherman to put out a boat. No time to be lost." "Oh, is it, is it " cried the bewildered girl, with no hand to feel for her eyeglass. "Where shall I go?"
"Remember, both of you," said Robin Lyth, "that you are not here to do as you please, but to obey my orders. If the coast-guard quarrel, we do not; and that is why we beat them. You will both do exactly as I have laid it down; and the risk of failure falls on me. The plan is very simple, and can not fail, if you will just try not to think for yourselves, which always makes everything go wrong.
"I'm man enough to get away with it, Thirkle or no Thirkle." "That sounds very big, Mr. Buckrow; but where will ye go? Easy enough it would be if this island was off the track of ships, but the minute ye make a westing ten miles with a boat-load of gold, or empty-handed, pop! ye go into the hands of a coast-guard cutter or a ship.
"These are a disgusting lot of cads," he agreed, "but there won't be such a jolly tide another time. I declare I see the very rock where I saw the sea-mouse- out there! red and shiny at the top." Here a well-dressed man, who had just come up the Coast-guard path, put aside his pipe, and taking off his hat, deferentially asked "Have I the honour of addressing Sir Adrian Vanderkist?"
A passing show, sir, half the time those I carry; no more to me, bless you, than so many sand-fleas a-hopping on the beach. Mr. Blackmore coast-guard officer he is I fetched him across early, with one of his men coming round from the Head. And that poor lippity-lop, Abram Sclanders' eldest. Pity he wasn't put away quiet-like at birth! Terrible drag he is on Abram and always will be.
"To prevent this misfortune, then," continued the captain, "I have resolved to furnish to those who calumniate you, a proof of the confidence which may be placed in you, by giving you the post of Ensenada and this very night." Pepe involuntarily opened his eyes to their fullest extent. "That surprises you?" said Don Lucas. "No," laconically replied the coast-guard.
Nevertheless, the coast-guard felt some kind of remorse of conscience though he had as yet no idea of the terrible consequences that had resulted. His remorse was simply that he had betrayed his post of sentinel; and he determined that he would make up for it by a more zealous performance of duty whenever an opportunity should offer.
I have sent two constables up to inquire of the coast-guard men along the cliffs whether they observed any man with a gun crossing the hills yesterday afternoon, and whether they heard a gun fired.
Captain Washington remarks, that 'a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction, that the greater part of the casualties that occur are not occasioned by stress of weather, but that they are mainly attributable to causes within control, and to which a remedy might be applied. This has long been our own opinion, and we have again and again expressed it.
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